The skull of a small child who lived and died many millennia ago represents the oldest direct evidence to date of the prolonged mingling between anatomically modern humans and our closely related ...

Significant brain defects known as Chiari malformations could be down to the genes some of us have inherited from Neanderthals, according to a new study, causing a mismatch between brain shape and ...

A skull abnormality that squeezes the lower brain, often causing headaches and other neurological problems, might be part of our genetic inheritance from Neanderthals. People with Chiari malformations ...

A newly-reconstructed million-year-old skull could drastically rewrite our understanding of when and where modern humans first emerged. Analysis of the fossil, found in China, suggests Homo sapiens, ...

W A S H I N G T O N, May 12 -- Three skulls dug from under amedieval town in the former Soviet Republic of Georgia and dating back 1.7 million years mayrepresent the first pre-humans who migrated out ...

A digital reconstruction of a million-year-old skull suggests humans may have diverged from our ancient ancestors 400,000 years earlier than thought and in Asia, not Africa, a study found. The ...